Pandora (internet radio)

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Logo of the Pandora internet radio station

Pandora is an internet radio from Pandora Media . For licensing reasons, Pandora may only be used within the United States , access from outside will be blocked. The station could also be received in Australia and New Zealand until July 31, 2017. As of December 31, 2015, the station had 81.1 million active listeners. In addition to the paid subscription, there is also the option of advertising-financed listening, which the vast majority of users make use of. According to a US study, Pandora is the most popular Internet radio with a share of 28% among Internet users over the age of 12.

More than 1,500,000 titles (as of March 2015) are available in the database , sorted by 450 attributes.

origin

Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora

Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project , which was founded on January 6, 2000 by Tim Westergren . Westergren sat down with professional and amateur musicians and tried to assign different attributes to pieces of music. Within five years, titles from 10,000 performers were examined in this way.

The name Music Genome Project is derived from the Human Genome Project , whose aim was to sequence the human genome .

functionality

The user first inputs the title of a song or the name of an artist. If it is contained in the title database, musically similar titles are searched for and played as a radio program. The listener specifies his musical taste by indicating whether he likes individual songs or not. The playback window points directly to Amazon and the iTunes Store , where the corresponding albums can be purchased.

It is not possible to rewind within individual songs or play them repeatedly. In addition, you cannot commit yourself to a specific artist or band, but rely on the random selection by Pandora. The “skip song” function can be used up to six times per hour; however, restarting Pandora avoids this.

The site displays its content with the proprietary Flash Player , which also plays the music. But there is also a whole range of stand-alone players.

For licensing reasons, since May 3, 2007, access from outside the USA, Australia and New Zealand has been recognized and blocked on the basis of the IP address ; British users were granted access until January 15, 2008. The previously stored data on radio stations and musical preferences that had been created were retained, so that at a later point in time, if the licenses should allow this, access to profiles that had already been created can be enabled again.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Form 10-K 2015
  2. ↑ Pandora is number one among Internet radios ( memento of the original from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Music Market, June 22, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.musikmarkt.de
  3. ↑ How Pandora Does It (Infographic)
  4. ↑ Julia Layton: How Pandora Radio Works on howstuffworks, accessed May 16, 2012
  5. ↑ BBC: "Pandora to cut off UK listeners", January 9, 2008 (Eng.)